When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.